Publisher: Son Music

Recommended Sales Price:
R 189.00

ISBN: 978-0-620-38059-1

Detail:
316 bladsye
Sagteband
Nie-fiksie
Biografies

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“It’s a special relationship, the one a woman has with her mirror... What she sees is what is there even though she doesn’t always want to see it.” Meisie van Nigel is like looking in Sonja Herholdt’s life mirror. It’s candid, it’s clear and it reflects a human story, one which every woman will relate to. The reader gets to page through the metaphoric “scrapbook” of Sonja’s life, follow her overnight rise to fame with her 1975 hit song “Ek Verlang na Jou”, feel in the heartache of her traumatic marriage, the crippling guilt of having had an abortion and share in the pressures of volatile media opinion. The story is written in a wonderful story-tale form with beautiful descriptions and conversations that capture the moments perfectly.

The book is full of the insights of writer Carel F Cronjé, the person who worked most closely with Sonja in the writing of the songs for her album, “Reconstructing Alice”. It shows us that we have the power to choose our approach to life. It shows us that we, like Sonja, can decide whether to cope with what life throws at us or whether to stop feeling, stop caring and stop believing in our futures.

Combined with the highs of fabulous career successes, including eight Sarie Awards, the Papillon Rising Star Award, for one of the eight most successful women in South Africa, an honorary award from the Afrikaans Department of Pretoria and an appearance before the President of the USA, Sonja also experienced extreme lows that included: an abortion, a marriage to a man who was continuously unfaithful to her, a terrible accident, a child that went deaf and her own fluctuating self esteem. All these factors had both positive and negative impacts on her life over the years.

‘Die Meisie van Nigel’ is not only for those who were there in 1978, when her first hit single was released. It is for everyone who is interested in the life of a celebrity. South Africa has few ‘divas’ and Sonja Herholdt is one of the finest. Enjoy this open hearted, truthful account of a true South African.